I'm half that and using these videos as a master class in gameplay.

I'm like 30 hours in and same these vids have saved me

im 194 hours deep

Ive played over 3k hours of Anno and I still watch these :p

i wouldnt say anno 1800 is a lesser known game, its just too advanced for the more casual audience so they give up really soon into it or dont even try

I mean.. You can always combine it, right?

If you're looking for a min max layout for efficiency then this is not it of course... this is great for beginner's, beauty building, and casual play.

@@TakaKZfaq Can you make one for most efficient ?

@@sandipanroy3106 There are plenty of those online. Taka is not about hyper efficiency.

I think I can help with that because I came up with a pretty, but rather inefficient way to do this. If you break production buildings down, there essentially are three kinds: agrarian, industrial and harbor. I will look at those things seperately from each other: If you look at the age of industrialization, the seperation between workspace and living space was a mostly urban phenemonon. So, why not mix up production and farmer residences? So, a self sufficient farmer village (without fishing because that would be at the docks) could be: 1 10*10 with a potato farm with one house, a 10*10 with a sheep farm and 5 residences, a 10*10 with 8 residences and a framework knitters, a 10*10 with a Schnapps Distillery, a fire station and 6 residences, a 10*10 with a framwork knitters, a warehouse and 3 residences. For industry, I like to put buildings of the same chain together, as well as copies of the same industry. When I am done, I build a wall around it and add industrial ornaments. This gives the impression of one mega-factory. As for harbors: I start with building roads at the side of every harbor building. It makes expansion into docklands easier and it gives the appearance of an elaborate pier system. With that said, the harbor consists of two zones: the industrial zone and the public zone. I put things like the commuter pier and the visitor's pier together while putting the production buildings and shipyards seperate, so I can wall them in with an industrial zone.

Yeap I've done a few variations of sizes in the past in other videos as well! 10x10 is just the smallest and easiest.. plus rolls off the tongue better haha

People play all sorts of ways really

You can see their economy and a diplomacy rating in the diplomatic screen. AI does not play by the same rules as the player so they don't really have population or income or anything. Honestly we don't even know what the economy rating consists of lol

A 12x12 wouldn't work for this method. The size of the square cannot be divisible by 3. You need it 1 tile larger to create the flexibility for the layout. I doubt I will make another video on larger sizes since it is the same concept as the 10x10 but on a larger scale.

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It's more about the ease of implementing the efficiency side of the game. While a lot of us like to beauty build in the game there are a significant number of players that also like to play the game like a giant spreadsheet calculator. Trying to marry the two extreme playstyles like that together is definitely very challenging from a design aspect... We'll see if they make any changes in the next game that they are making!

You can upgrade at 10 farmers. The other 3 are from lifestyle and not required.

​@@TakaKZfaq That's what I thought, but the upgrade button is greyed out for all farmers' houses. Stuck at 10/13. I've restarted my city 5 times and always get stuck at this point. I'm missing something. Thanks for your help!

all of it

Sounds like you're laying it out wrong... The easiest way to make it correctly is to place down three houses with one tile in between two of the houses so you have a total of 10 tiles on one side. Then going across the other way place another house leave a space and then one more house. That gives you 10 tiles the other way. Then just connect the two corners around.

Thanks :)@@TakaKZfaq

You totally missed the point of the layout and need to watch the video again.

@@TakaKZfaq no i got it, that's just the part i wanted most, early on it also creates the need for more services that cost$. Still a good vid but the grove part didn't work at for me on xbox

Feel free to post pictures on the Discord server! We love to see what other's are building!

A 6x6 or 12x12 is the exact size of 4 houses in a square or 3 houses on each side with a 3x3 in the center. This leaves no space for flexibility which is what the 10x10 or any square that is NOT divisible by 3 is useful for. With a 6x6 you have to take out an entire house if you want to, say, bring a train track though. With a 10x10 you only need to scoot a house or two over 1 tile within the square and don't have to destroy anything.

@@TakaKZfaq I see the math but it does not really matter. I can move everything and make space for anything in any grid. I can put down parks and trees to fill the gaps. The game is always flexible, because we can always move/destroy things.

​@@MFKologluthe 10×10 does make it easier to shuffle things around while keeping a tidy organic look, I started using it

@@MFKologlu Why missing the point... it's not that hard, really.

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No you just need to learn how it works

@@TakaKZfaq dude..... The game Devs literally wrote that they wanted to push the players into building multiple islands instead of one giga city island. But as a player you are free to play as you like. And for absolute freedom, you should just disable it.

Royal taxes cap out at 40% of the total income for each population tier once they reach 4875 pop. So you still have 60% of your income for that tier. If you can't sustain a positive economy with that 60% then that's on the player, not the game. If it were an actual issue then everyone would have problems keeping it positive, but it's not.

Creative Mode

@@TakaKZfaq ahhh, didnt even know that existed lol thanks for the reply bro, keep up the great work.